Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4.00 p.m. in Room 6.2, Old Library Building unless otherwise stated. All welcome (including undergraduate students).
Semester 2 Programme:
2004
19 February
Helen Ferstenberg (Yale): Cultural Zionism, the Search for an Alternative Jewish Creative Identity, and Lion Feuchtwanger's Josephus Trilogy
4 March (NOT 11 March as originally scheduled)
Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster): Córdoba, Kitzbühel, and Contemporary Culture: Austrian Dramatists on Sport and National Identity
22 April
Sebastian Coxon (UCL): Rude words in Hartmann von Aue's Iwein
6 May
There will be no research seminar talk this Thursday, contrary to our
scheduled programme. Regina Weinert had to cancel her talk, for which
apologies.
The research seminar series will resume in the autumn.
Semester 1 Programme:
30 October 2003
Beate Müller (Newcastle): 'Aktenkundig'. Stasi-Discourses about Jurek Becker
13 November
Guinevere Narraway (Monash University, Melbourne): Perverse Tragedy: Revolutionary Death in Nazi Cinema
Wed 26 November
Andrea Rinke (Kingston): From Models to Rebels and Misfits - Representations of Women in East German cinema
11 December
Colin Riordan (Newcastle): Ecocentrism in W.G.Sebald's Nach der Natur/After Nature